Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 71

Thus would I abide here awhile with my brother and mine uncle, that my wounds might be tended, and that with them I might save my soul.

Who acts: I, that, my · What happens: abide, tend, save, wound · To what, where: wounds, soul

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 abide	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 abide	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 abide	nsubj
4	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 abide	advmod
6	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	4 abide	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 brother	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 abide	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 uncle	cc
11	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uncle	compound
12	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brother	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tended	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 tended	mark
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wounds	nmod:poss
16	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tended	nsubj:pass
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tended	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 tended	aux:pass
19	tended	tend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 abide	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 save	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 save	cc
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 save	nsubj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 that	nmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 save	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 save	aux
27	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 abide	parataxis
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 soul	nmod:poss
29	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 save	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 abide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	abide	would	I		here	with my brother and mine uncle; awhile, thus property	tree rules
2	tend	might · passive		my wounds			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	save	might	that with wounds	my soul		I nsubj	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme
4	wound		my				nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 71